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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






2. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






3. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






4. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






5. Multisensory Structured Language Education






6. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






7. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






8. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






9. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






10. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






11. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






12. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






13. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






14. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






15. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






16. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






17. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






18. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






19. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






20. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






21. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






22. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






23. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






24. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






25. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






26. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






27. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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28. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






29. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






30. Academic Language Therapy Association






31. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






32. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






33. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






34. Ability to understand and express spoken language






35. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






36. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






37. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






38. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






39. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






40. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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41. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






42. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






43. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






44. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






45. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






46. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






47. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






48. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






49. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






50. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents